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in Earth's history. As present processes are thought to explain all past events, the Uniformitarian slogan
is, "the present is the key to the past."

The Bible predicts this belief will fill the earth in the last days:

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their
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own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all
continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." For when they maintain this, it escapes their
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notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and
by water. 2 Peter 3:3-5

Creationists, however, have argued against that, saying that geological pieces of evidence support not
uniformity but cataclysm, and in particular, the surface of the earth demonstrates a massive universal
hydraulic cataclysm (a worldwide flood). And at creation, there was literally a water-engulfed earth
that was reshaped cataclysmically, and there was a Flood that covered the earth, again having an
immense effect on its formation.

Let's look at some scientific observations that point to a young earth in the thousands of years of age.

This information is presented in "Evidence for a Young World" by D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. xxxviii

Several natural phenomena conflict with the evolutionary idea that the universe is billions of years old.
The numbers listed below in bold print (usually in the millions of years) are often the maximum possible
ages set by each process, not the actual ages. The numbers in italics are the ages required by
evolutionary theory for each item. The point is that the maximum possible ages are always much less
than the required evolutionary ages, while the Biblical age (6,000 years) always fits comfortably within
the maximum possible ages. Thus, the following items are evidence against the evolutionary time scale
and for the Biblical time scale. Much more young-world evidence exists, but I have chosen these items
for brevity and simplicity. Some of the items on this list can be reconciled with the old-age view only by
making a series of improbable and unproven assumptions; others can fit in only with a recent creation.

1. Galaxies wind themselves up too fast.

The stars of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, rotate about the galactic
center at different speeds, the inner ones rotating faster than the outer
ones. The observed rotation speeds are so fast that if our galaxy were
more than a few hundred million years old, it would be a featureless
disc of stars instead of its present spiral shape. xxxix Yet our galaxy is
supposed to be at least 10 billion years old. Evolutionists call this "the
winding-up dilemma," which they have known about for fifty years. They
have devised many theories to explain it, each failing after a brief period
of popularity. The same "winding-up" dilemma also applies to other
galaxies. For the last few decades, the favored attempt to resolve the
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puzzle has been a complex theory called "density waves." The theory
has conceptual problems, has to be arbitrarily and very finely tuned, and has been called into serious

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